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17, APPEARANCE IS "ASPECT"
Remove "a" from aspect, and place it between R (right) and L(left), both hands, giving spectral.

Cheers for SPECTRAL rusty.

11a Functions of loudspeakers, according to gnome?
ACTIONS

27a. Doesn't feel at all well
FUMBLES

14. Takes to wife, forsooth
MARRY

1d. Regiment stands - but not to attention
RETREATS

Parses for the above please.

1. Regiment is RE and stands is TREATS (as in to pay for).

14. Double definition. Marry and forsooth are both archaic exclamations.

27 is just an extended cryptic def I think.

11a actions speak louder than words, according to the pithy saying

Shouldn't it rather be what loudspeakers don't do - i.e. they're all talk and no action?

Okay, I think I get the logic now

Cheers for the help, both...but what has 11a got to do with 'gnomes'?

Chambers…

gnome2 /nōm or nōˈmē/
noun (pl gnomes /nōmz or nōˈmēz/ or gnomae /nōˈmē/)

A pithy and sententious saying, generally in verse, embodying some moral sentiment or precept

ORIGIN: Gr gnōmē an opinion, maxim

I didn't know that. Thanks Jono.